Simon Hanfstaengl

Simon Hanfstaengl (14 June 1920-13 April 1945) was a soldier of Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht who was awarded with the Ehrenhafte Aufgaben award for his bravery in World War II.

Biography
Simon Hanfstaengl was born on 14 June 1920 in Baden, Weimar Republic (present-day Germany). Hanfstaengl was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1940 and sent to fight in France, and remained as a soldier in France during the four years of peace on the Western Front. In June 1944, when the Allied Powers invaded Europe, Hanfstaengl fought in the battle of Normandy in the Falaise Gap campaign and was given the Ehrenhafte Aufgaben award for bravery during the fighting at the Laison River. Hanfstaengl was killed in action near Berlin, Nazi Germany on 13 April 1945.